simplestgift | Twelve Bells: [WRITTEN/ACCIDENTAL VIDEO/ACTION] The winter of our discontent.

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Meet me this evening? I'll come by your flat to walk you to dinner. I've a surprise for you.
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It has come to my attention that every copy the library has of Richard III is missing bits of his famous speech. I've noticed it in other places as well. Romeo and Juliet is lacking the lines when she wakes up and they reunite before he remembers he took poison. All for Love is also just a bit different from what I remember. Far as I can tell, The London Merchant is whole, but quite a lot of older tragedies are missing bits and pieces. Can anyone explain this?

There's something about the fight between Tybalt and Mer

[The writing stops. A second later, the journal hits the floor, showing a lovely view of the carpet in one of the many apartments in the village. In the background, Archie's voice begins, sounding a little flustered.]

Horatio, I'll be back in a few hours. Damn, damn.

Archie? [The immediate confusion is quickly replaced with a concern that he tries to make sound less pressing than he felt it.] What is it? Where are you going?

[Archie's voice comes back, less frantic but still speaking quickly as some jangling is heard from picking up his sword.] Nothing. In trying to get you settled this week, I completely forgot to practice. I'll be out back, behind the building, wishing I was dead.

Ah, of course. The pirate. [A beat.] Shall I wait here, then?

[A pause.] I suppose two could practice.

If he'd prefer to deal with only one, I would be content to just watch. [Not that he's trying to put off the inevitable-- that sooner or later, he has to let Archie out of his sight for more than a few minutes. ...To distract from that idea, he chuckles.] Besides-- would be hard for two to practice when only one is armed. Perhaps once I have a sword again, you can teach me what he's taught you.

I don't have a lesson today, Horatio. We could stop by the weapons' shop and find you something more than suitable. [He sounds slightly wistful.]

[The thought of not yet having to deal with the pirate whose boat he borrowed? Perks him up.] I'd like that.

Very well, Mister Hornblower. I challenge you to a duel!

And, as a gentleman, I cannot refuse. I am afraid, Mr. Kennedy, that in a matter as serious as this-- [the smile on his face is betrayed by his tone] --there can, naturally, be no quarter given.

[What follows behind CH1 is two navy boys gleefully trying to chop each other up. It's more akin to horseplay than practice, but it appears that "the twins" are having fun, at least. Onlookers feel free to look on.

Later, Archie will do a little honest practice on his own in the same place.

OOC: Anyone whose character knows stuff about lit history can point out that a lot of older plays in the 18th century were rewritten just a little to update them for a "modern" audience.]

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I never said you weren't worthy.

[He switches back to voice.] I did.

[He doesn't sound upset about it, exactly. He just counts himself lucky.]

...There's a certain amount of over-protectiveness involved, sure -- but Archie? I gave my blessing. If you realized what sort of long string of disasters in my own love-life I could compare Dawnie's potential love-life to? You wouldn't be so bent out of shape about this. My blessing's a big thing.

[There's some hesitation.]

The trick has always been to keep you from regretting it.

Have you tried to hurt her, yet? Have you tried to murder her family? Have you tried to end the world with a spell? Accidental or otherwise? Have you effed off and decided not to call back? Nope. None of those things. So what's the big trick? You're just being you and it's working.

[ mostly. ]

[For a moment, the only sound is of knuckles lightly rapping against wood as if in thought. Talking about a relationship is...odd, but doable.]

I think there's something I've done, or haven't done, that's troubling you.

And I think you're probably over-reacting.

[He can remember when his sister was married. He'd already joined the navy and barely saw her anymore, but no matter how good a man her husband was, he hadn't been able to shake the feeling of being usurped.]

If you say so.

[ buffy hasn't even considered being usurped. she feels no anxiety in that department. why should she? the summers sisters have always been the most precious things to each other. ]

I do say so.

[Especially since when they go home, Dawn will forget all about her sailor boyfriend.]

Very well. I apologize.

Buck up, Kennedy. [ she rarely uses his surname instead of his first name. it sounds odd. ] Walk tall, even if you don't feel it. Do you realize how absolutely stupid it is to walk in and start off by telling the older sister the reasons why she shouldn't think you're good enough? I'm pretty sure that violates every rule of successful entrepreneurship.

I don't know, actually. I've managed to get my sweetheart's sister to try to convince me I'm a good match when normally it would be the other way round.

Well? I like to think I'm a good judge of character.

[ she isn't. ]

...Then about my other mistake.

That's not exactly a conversation I'm all warm-and-fuzzy about broaching right now, Archie.

There's nothing I can do, then.

[He kinda thinks she's being a tad oversensitive, but he'll reserve judgment anyway. For all he knows, someone pulled this on her before, with more malicious intent.]

[ it has, in fact, happened before. and it was a most unpleasant experience. but on top of that, buffy is far more concerned with her own lack of security coupled with how close archie is to dawn -- dawn, who responds very poorly to the moments where buffy checks out and gets a little too yearnful for heaven. ]

Just -- don't chase it, okay? Time heals all burning bridges and yadda yadda yadda.

[There's a pause. Okay. He lets it go. How much did he hate Horatio, those first few weeks after he arrived at Ferrol?

He is wise enough not to point out that time heals all wounds.]

Very well.

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Just because I want some space and-slash-or time doesn't mean I've gone and changed my mind on everything, okay? You gotta know that.

I do.

[That doesn't mean it doesn't hurt.]

[ just like she knows archie didn't intend manipulation but it still sets off her alarm bells. makes her feel a little burned. ]

I'll see you around, Archie.

Yes, of course.

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